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Peter Morgan, writer of the much-admired series The Crown, has been sounding off about his royal subject and the institution of monarchy, branding the Queen as “of limited intelligence”, a “countryside woman” who would rather be looking after her horses and her dogs than doing her job as monarch.

It would be fair to say that the Queen is indeed a countryside woman at heart. As a child, she once told a friend that when she grew up she would like to marry a farmer and have lots of horses and cows and dogs.

Morgan’s depiction of her as a woman of limited intelligence, however, is strictly limited in itself, and does not tie in with the comments of countless ambassadors and politicians who have had...